On the Road to Dingle - Unsettled
Height: 130cm Width: 110cm
On the Road to Dingle - Disquiet
Height: 150cm Width: 150cm
On the Road to Dingle - Disquiet
Height: 150cm Width: 150cm
On the Road to Dingle- Tempestuous
Height: 150cm Width: 150cm
On the Road to Dingle - Boisterous
Height: 80cm Width: 80cm
On the Road to Dingle - Quarrelsome
Height: 80cm Width: 80cm
On the Road to Dingle - Fitful
Height: 80cm Width: 80cm
Boreas
Height: 152cm Width: 152cm
Boreas & Hesperides VII (in situ)
Height: 152cm Width: 152cm
Aurora
Height: 120cm Width: 112cm
Nyx
Height: 120cm Width: 112cm
Hesperides III
Height: 90cm Width: 90cm
Hesperides IV
Height: 92cm Width: 92cm
Hesperides VIII
Height: 60cm Width: 60cm
Hesperides IX
Height: 60cm Width: 60cm
Hesperides IX (in situ)
Height: 60cm Width: 60cm
Hesperides X
Height: 60cm Width: 60cm
Gaia
Height: 152cm Width: 152cm
Hera
Height: 120cm Width: 112cm
Red Sky at Night VIII
Height: 60cm Width: 60cm
Red Sky at Night VIII insitu
Height: 60cm Width: 60cm
Swan Lake
Height: 91cm Width: 91cm
Early Start II & Early Start III
Height: 125cm Width: 112cm
Early Start II
Height: 125cm Width: 112cm
Early Start III
Height: 125cm Width: 112cm
Red Sky at Night XI
Height: 152cm Width: 152cm
Red Sky at Night III
Height: 152cm Width: 152cm
Red Sky at Night I
Height: 152cm Width: 152cm
For the Love of Blue I & II (in situ)
Height: 125cm Width: 112cm
For the Love of Blue I
Height: 125cm Width: 112cm
For the Love of Blue II
Height: 125cm Width: 112cm
Nocturne III
Height: 70cm Width: 65cm
Pretty Beach I
Height: 70cm Width: 65cm
Rydal Water I
Height: 152cm Width: 152cm
Rydal Water I insitu
Height: 152cm Width: 152cm
Framed works on paper - Request Catalogue
Height: 48cm Width: 42cm
Coastal Walks Alba VI
Height: 122cm Width: 112cm
Coastal Walks Alba VII
Height: 122cm Width: 112cm
Coastal Walks Anglia III Interior by Karen Akers Design
Height: 122cm Width: 112cm
Born in England near the Lake District, Janice lived and worked in Germany, Hong Kong, Thailand and back in England before settling in Sydney and the N.S.W. Southern Highlands.
While living in Bangkok, she completed a City & Guild Diploma in Textile Art which was heavily influenced by her travels to neighbouring Cambodia and Laos as well as to the hill tribes in northern Thailand and China, with all their rich traditions of silk weaving.
On returning to live in England, she completed a foundation diploma in Fine Arts at Cheltenham School of Art, and built on that by taking a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts at the National Art School in Sydney.
She has exhibited in group and solo shows and her work appears in both private and public collections.
Erebus and the Hesperides
Erebus and the Hesperides explores stories that underpin Greek Mythology and the relevance of what they’re trying to teach, to today’s life. In vibrant pinks, reds, oranges and blues, each painting in this series embodies a different character. Liley has represented their energy through automatism of line and expressive brushwork.
“The Hesperides are the muses that live in the western most spaces of the hemisphere and are personified by cast shadows caused by the setting sun on clouds. They live in a garden where they guard the golden apples. They’re three strong women who are protecting something precious.
Erebus is the god of darkness and is the father of the Hesperides – he comes out when the sun sets and goes back when the sun rises.” – Janice Liley
Artist Statement
I paint from remembered landscapes that I carry with me. I don’t wish to reproduce what I see in front of me, but merely to try and paint how I feel about a world that inhabits me.
Their inceptions are never clear nor planned, but start life like unarticulated words that hang between the said and the unspoken.
Design is sought in moments of uncertainty, building upon marks that appear from the canvas, brought about by fragments of colour, smells and memories. I have learnt over time to find solace in the confusion and frustration, which at times feels like wearing shoes that slightly pinch, but knowing, trusting that in this flux images will appear without warning or great fanfare; like an old pair of lost jeans, the sight of which brings shy comfort.
Click here to view Janice Liley discussing her art practice
Education
2007 Bachelor of Fine Arts, painting major, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
2004 BTEC Diploma, Foundation studies (art & design), University of Gloucester, UK
2002 Creative Studies Part 2, Embroidery Skills, City and Guilds of the London Institute
1995 Creative Studies Part 1, Embroidery Skills, Opus School of Textile Art, London, UK
Exhibitions
2022 Erebus and the Hesperides at Art2Muse Gallery, Woollahra, Sydney
2020 Where Land and Sky Meet at Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney
2019 ‘Hours of the Day – Horis Diei‘ at Art2Muse, Double Bay, Sydney
2017 Coastal Walks at Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney
2016 ‘Caelum’ at Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney
2015 Art2Muse Gallery, Double Bay, Sydney
2014 Depot II Gallery, Dank Street, Sydney
2011 Fort Knox Studio, Bowral, NSW
2009 Defiance Gallery, Sydney
2007 Graduation Show, NAS, Sydney
2006 Drawing Week Cell Block Theatre, NAS, Sydney
2005 Drawing Week, Cell Block Theatre. NAS, Sydney
2004 Graduation Show, University of Gloucester, UK
2003 Hill End Farm Drawing Art Prize Finalist, Broadway, Gloucester, UK
2002 Graduation Show, Museum of London, UK
2001 Textile Art Exhibition, Ascot, UK
2000 Textile Art Exhibition, Harrogate, UK
1995 Graduation Show, Bedford Collect, Regent’s Park, London UK
Media
2010 Country Style Magazine, Jan
2009 Country Style Magazine, Nov
2009 Inside Out Magazine, Nov/Dec
2004 The Encyclopaedia of Machine Embroidery, Val Holmes, Batford, UK
Collections
Private: Australia. UK. USA. Germany
Public: Australia. St Vincent’s Hospital. Sydney
Awards
2006 St Vincent’s Hospital Award
2003 Hill End Farm Drawing Art Prize Finalist, Broadway, Gloucester, UK